This is somewhat less tested than the "main" Precise Puppy, so take it as being an unofficial release. Well, it is the same in all respects except for kernel and video drivers.

Important: This retro-Precise has a 3.2.32 kernel, the "main" precise has a 3.2.29 kernel. You will find various kernel drivers in the repositories for the 3.2.29 kernel, and they won't work in the retro-Precise.

It is probably not a good idea for developers to start compiling drivers for the 3.2.32 kernel, as I consider it to be a work-in-progress, optimising it for older hardware, so will probably recompile the kernel soon.

The intention is to build Precise Puppy with this kernel, for computers that have a pae-incapable CPU.
However, I was uncertain whether any of these, such as the Pentium-M, are recognised by the kernel as having more than one processor.
If not, then it would have been better to have configured without smp support.

Anyway, as it is, this kernel can be used for all CPUs, from i586 upward.

This is it, the very first official release of Precise Puppy! Brief announcement:

Precise Puppy is built from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04.1+ binary DEB packages, hence has binary compatibility with Ubuntu and access to the vast Ubuntu package repository. Couple that with Puppy's tiny size, speed and ease-of-use, and this is one incredible pup!

This is the very first release of Precise Puppy. It is assigned version 5.4 to indicate it's position relative to the other puppies, such as Wary 5.3 and Slacko 5.3.3 (5.4 coming soon).

A lot of work has happened at the "Woof-level" since the release of Wary 5.3 in April 2012 -- of particular importance to Precise are the many enhancements to the Puppy Package Manager (PPM). At the "Precise-level" there has been a very long period of testing and refinement, over several months.

As Ubuntu Precise Pangolin is a 5-year Long Term Supported release, we expect that Precise Puppy will be also.

NouveauThis is the open-source nVidia video driver. It is still immature on some hardware -- for example, you just get a black screen. Fallbacks are the 'nv' or 'vesa' X.org drivers, or the commercial nVidia driver -- see Forum if you can't figure out how to fallback to these.

PAE kernelSee the Release Notes above. "Pentium M" CPUs are the problem -- many of these are i686 but lacking PAE capability.
I have decided to do a build of Precise Puppy with non-PAE kernel. Please wait a couple of days for this. It will be announced on my blog.